SovietSamurai

I get the surgery being the cause of his appearance, I guess what I had issues with was the appearance itself. Like it crossed the line from "failed surgery subject" to "billy-goat-eating troll under the bridge." Which may very well be what they were aiming for. Still, you'd think that omnipotent family of his could have afforded better, although I suppose you could bring up Michael Jackson as a counter-argument. Eh, it's all good.

Thanks for the theories. It makes a bit more sense now. And really, given the context, "a bit" is all the sense it needs to make.

And I think having the women running Old Town was a great idea but for me the way it's executed in Sin City seems more like an erotic fantasy to me rather than a vision of female empowerment.

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Do those two have to be mutually exclusive?

Ok, I get the color and the smell, but did he really have to look like a refugee from Mordor? With the nose and the ears and stuff, I seriously expected him to speak with a cockney accent and menace hobbits with a rusty halberd*. That's the closest thing I have to a complaint about Sin City, by the way.

*Which is kinda ironic, cause the ex-hobbit in this film would have kicked his smelly ass into next month.

I do hate drivers that seem totally oblivious to the fact that they are in charge of a huge mass of metal travelling at high speed and capable of easily killing people if due care and attention isn't paid.

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Exactly why I don't, and never will, drive. Also, the expense of owning/maintaining/insuring a car is ridiculous.

nah, yuo just grab one, start biting his ears and nose off, breaking his little finders off, then chewing them off, and the rest would disperse ASAP...

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The rules specify that they are motivated enough to fight regardless of fear tactics. Using one as a club, however, is perfectly legitimate.

Well, Watchmen arrived, and I read it... wow. I've pretty much settled on being Rorschach for halloween. "You don't understand. I'm not locked in here with you. you're locked in here with me."

Sure, he's kind of a creep, but it's halloween. And he is undeniably a badass creep.

It'll take at least one more reading before I can discuss it in any meaningful way... but... how they gonna make this a movie? I'm baffled.

Maybe I should have emphasized the "I" instead of the "could" at the end of my post. I enjoy nearly any movie, no matter how inept, often without noticing the ineptitude until someone points it out. Godzilla movies in particular hold a special place in my heart. I'm just not critical about most things. And as for Midnite not worth being argued over, you're probably right. I just had nothing better to do.

The challenge, as stolen from another message board (who had stolen it themselves):

The question: How many 5 year-olds could you take on at once?

 

The specifics:

 

- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.

- You are not allowed to touch a wall.

- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."

- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.

- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.

- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.

* The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.

Personally, I'd say at least 20, unless their training sticks better than I would assume from my own knowledge of 5 year olds.

Oh, and I probably don't have to say this, but please don't actually try this.

heh heh, I would know all this, if I knew German. Y'see, at the school's library book sale I picked up four volumes of the Heavy Metal Lexikon. I'd wager it has at least a page on every band Mark has mentioned. To bad it's in German. The album art is fun to look at, worth the couple dollars I paid for the set...

Pooka speaks true.

 

As for Manowar...

 

[whole lotta cool lyrics and stuff]

 

I have unhealthy love for Manowar, and I don't care who knows it. The silliest band in the world, without any doubt at all. And that's why they're great. They even worked with Orson Welles (no, really. He's on their first album). How can anyone not love men who dress like this with no irony at all?

 

And their website is called The Kingdom Of Steel. What's not to like?

 

DEATH TO FALSE METAL.

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Ok, just checking. I got into Manowar just a year ago, or so. I still dig them, but since I also dig weird al, rockapella, and techno disney remixes, all without irony (ok, maybe a little irony on the techno disney) I didn't know if anyone else felt the same way.

A few things... geez, it's been forever since I saw this movie...

One of the first few posters mentioned Midnite in the "all about redemption" diatribe (too correct and coherent to be called a rant.) Personally, I feel that Papa Midnite was the exception to that rule. He helped Constantine only because the bad guys were already cheating, so some cheating on the good guy side would also be allowable, or indeed required, for balance.

(PS: is it possible that the Map character influenced the final film Midnite? I realize that this is mostly a thread about the movie without reference to the comic, and I also realize that I have no knowledge of Map except for what the synopses on this site have given me, but it seems reasonable, and I haven't had a good opportunity to ask until now.)

Someone compared God's bet with Satan to a wager between "one of us" and a six year old. I dunno about you all, but if any six year old wanted to challenge me to a bet, I'd take it. Not for too much money, but I certainly wouldn't mind proving a six year old wrong.

Overall, though, this thread does show the failings of the movie much more convincingly than most of the conversation I've seen around here. I wonder how many of the movies I like could stand up to this kind of in-depth examination...

One thing that gets to me is use of the word literally to strengthen a non-literal statement. I can't immediately think of an example I've heard recently, but it does happen every now and then. Something like "It was literally raining cats and dogs" when there are in fact no felines or canines faling from the sky.

I like Manowar, which, a little research has suggested, is not taken seriously by "true" metalheads. Am I misled, or not? Also, what do we all think of This Is Spinal Tap? I've only seen the second half or so, but it seemed funny.

I love the all the (pseudo-)intellectual hippies and potheads at my school in Santa Fe... waitaminnit, no I don't....

They're not that bad though. And I've occasionally seen coyotes from my dorm room window, which is cool. The weather here is nice, and the scenery is wonderful.

Back at my other home (i.e. with the family in Chicago) I love being able to walk anywhere I need to go, and I can take the train anywhere else that might catch my interest. There's something appealing, too, about the anonymity a big city offers.

Glorious, glorious 21! (here in the States, 21 is the legal drinking age, and in some states the legal porn age too.)

here it is

I haven't read Watchmen yet (ordered it from Amazon yesterday) but by all accounts it's a good read. Those of you more emotionally invested in the comic might want to check the review out, it's quite positive, from someone who seems familiar with the original.

Just as soon as a track down a scanner...

My personal favorite is Drusilla. Something about twisted psychotic evil really turns me on.

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Something about her punk ex-lover William the Bloody turns me on.

 

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Which means I really oughta get my Halloween pics online, I make an awesome Spike.

Elastigirl. With the stretching and the bending and the spandex...

Also, pretty much any female character from the Buffy tv series. Except Buffy herself. Oh, and Dawn's only hot if she isn't talking. My personal favorite is Drusilla. Something about twisted psychotic evil really turns me on.

Well, lent's over, so it's back to the cigarettes for me. I wasn't addicted, and don't think it's likely I ever will be, but I figured I'd better quit for a while just to make sure I could. As far as Constantines cigarettes go, I do have a friend in Ireland right now, I could probably convince her to get me a pack of silk cuts. Cigarettes for girls sounds more or less what I'm looking for... even after over a year of occasional smoking, I can still get sick from trying to finish a whole cigarette at once. I blame the altitude, 7000 or so feet above sea level here in Santa Fe. Half a cig does the same to me as two or three shots of vodka.

Oh, and did I mention that if it doesn't get in by noon, I get an F in the class?

Ouch! Well, good luck on it then, SovSam! 8-)

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Thanks!

I got it done, so it's in Fate's hands now. And by Fate I mean my Dr. Evil lookin' tutor. He's even got the accent. It's both amusing and kinda scary.

(and this movie IS popular despite being so bad that even Hollywood laughed its director out of a career)

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Admittedly, I haven't seen the documentary, but the impression I got was more that Duffy himself was a huge asshole, not that they laughed him out on the basis of his movie. I have a hard time believing that Hollywood would consider any money-making movie bad.

Well, I have no girlfriend or work woes to share (I did, but things are kinda looking up.) My current issue is having to write 7+ pages of philosophy essay before noon tomorrow. I've already gotten 3 down, so my plan is to do 2 or 3 more from the text, and then just go crazy with the implications for the remaining 4-5. My past tutors have usually said I stick to close too the text anyway, so it's not as bad as it sounds. If anyone here is interested in an essay on... uh... Totality and Infinity, an Essay on Exteriority, by Emanuel Levinas, lemme know and I'll post the finished thing in Show Your Wares. Not that I expect much interest, I think it's rather obscure to non-philosophy students.

Oh, and did I mention that if it doesn't get in by noon, I get an F in the class?

Read the comics? At least some of that magic is based on "real" magic. Issue 11, portraying the Newcastle incident, shows an attempt at spell from the Grimoirium Verum. Do a google search for it, it'll be one of the first results as a pdf. Just don't try summoning Sagatana...

Wish fullfilment, plain and simple. None of us will ever actually shoot people just because we think they're bad (I hope), and most of us don't intellectually agree with the idea of it, but every now and then, who hasn't wanted to bust out some .45s and waste [insert strongly disliked person/faction here]?

And I do enjoy some of the filmmaking choices. The gradual mixture of flashback and current explication, up until Dafoe is right along-side the saints in the poker game massacre, I really liked.

Boondock Saints may not be deserving of all the love that some people have lavished on it, but I don't believe it deserves the bile directed at it by others, either. Of course it's not so great compared to Pulp Fiction... but what is? On it's own terms, maybe with some beer or something, it's a perfectly decent flick.